On 19 March 2019, the opening ceremony for the exhibition “Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The Preaching of St John the Baptist. Conservation Completed. In Memory of Nikolai Nikulin” took place in the Menshikov Palace. The exhibition celebrates the completion of the restoration of this painting and is

On 14 and 15 March 2019, the Council Hall of the State Hermitage was the venue for an international conference, the central purpose of which was discussion of problems connected with updating the museum space –the architecture of buildings, the design of exhibitions and permanent displays, curatoria

The cultural TV channel Russia-K has broadcast the latest programme in the authorial series by Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky – “Toys and Games in the Hermitage” devoted to games, intellectual and entertaining, for children and for adults, musical and artistic.

On 5 March 2019, the exhibition “Without separating painting and poetry”. Books Illustrated by André Masson from the Collection of Mark Bashmakov was formally opened in the General Staff building of the State Hermitage. Around 30 publications present Masson’s output as a book illustrator over a peri

On 5 and 6 March 2019, the State Hermitage held a conference on “The Art of Jewellery and Material Culture”. This is one of the museum’s oldest conferences with roots going back to a seminar with the same title that was established in 1996 by Natalia Alexeyevna Zakharova.

n 1 March 2019, the exhibition “Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678). Paintings and Drawings from Russian Collections” was formally opened in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace. It has been organized by the State Hermitage in conjunction with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and with the pa

On 26 February 2019, the latest session of the Weaponry Seminar took place in the State Hermitage. The event was, as usual, attended by weaponry specialists from St Petersburg museums and independent researchers.

On 22 February 2019, the General Staff building was the venue for the Hermitage’s sixth intellectual marathon, devoted this time to Piero della Francesca. The event focussed on classic art and the phenomenon of its present-day popularity.

On 22 February 2019, the Small Atrium of the General Staff building was the venue for the presentation of Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky’s book Ermitazh. Ot skifov do Kifera. 50 vystavok za 25 let [The Hermitage: from the Scythians to Kiefer. 50 Exhibitions over 25 Years] (ARCA publishers, St

On 20 February 2019, the Hermitage Theatre was the venue for the formal opening of the first International Congress of the Eurasian Association of Iranists. The assembled guests and congress participants were welcomed by Svetlana Adaksina, Deputy General Director of the State Hermitage.

On 13 February 2019, at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, in a hall used to display a huge Murillo canvas that belongs to the Story of Jacob series, of which there are two other paintings in the Hermitage, a seminar was held that had been organized by the American Association of Art Museum Directors and